Luke 15:1
Then resorted vnto hym all the publicanes and sinners, for to heare hym.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.
In Context
2And the pharisees & scribes murmured, saying: he receaueth sinners, and eateth with them.
Cross References
Matthew 21:28But what thynke you? A man had two sonnes, and came to the firste, and saide: sonne, go and worke to day in my vineyarde.
Luke 7:29And all the people, and the publicanes that hearde hym, iustified God, and were baptized with the baptisme of Iohn.
Romans 5:20But the lawe in the meane tyme entred in, that sinne shoulde encrease. But where sinne was plenteous, grace was more plenteous.
Matthew Henry on Luke 15:1
Evil manners, we say, beget good laws; so, in this chapter, the murmuring of the scribes and Pharisees at the grace of Christ, and the favour he showed to publicans and sinners, gave occasion for a more full discovery of that grace than perhaps otherwise we should have had in these three parables which we have in this chapter, the scope of all of which is the same, to show, not only what God had said and sworn in the Old Testament, that he had no pleasure in the death and ruin of sinners, but that he had great… Read the whole commentary →